CLARKSVILLE – After a weekend off, the Austin Peay State University beach volleyball team will play in its first-ever Ohio Valley Conference regular-season matches at the OVC Weekend at Chattanooga, March 25-26, at the Beach Volleyball Facility at the UTC Sports Complex in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Austin Peay will kick off the weekend with an 8 a.m. (CT), match against Eastern Illinois, which is playing its first-ever season of beach volleyball. The Panthers are 0-1 on the season after dropping their first match to Missouri Baptist, 4-1, on March 21.

The Govs then square off against Morehead State at 2 p.m., Friday, in a battle between the OVC's regular season and tournament champions from a season ago. The Eagles are 3-5 on the year and enter the first OVC weekend on a three-match losing streak after playing in the College of Charleston Beach Classic, March 12-13.

A noon, Saturday match against UT Martin is next up for the Governors. Austin Peay beat UT Martin, 3-0, in last season's OVC Tournament Championship and beat the Skyhawks, 3-2, earlier in the season at the Governors Beach Challenge. UT Martin is 3-2 this season after picking up midweek victories against North Alabama, 5-0, and Jacksonville State, 5-0.

Finally, Austin Peay takes on home-standing Chattanooga at 4 p.m., Saturday to wrap up the first OVC Weekend. The Govs and Mocs have yet to play this season, but Chattanooga won both meetings last season by a score of 3-2. The Mocs are 8-2 this season and are on a four-match winning streak.

Austin Peay also enters the weekend on a three-match winning streak led by its No. 1 pairing Marlyana Bullington and Kelsey Mead. Bullington and Mead did not drop a set at the Governors Beach Challenge and earned OVC Pair of the Week, March 15.

Brooke Moore and Mikayla Powell command the No. 2 position for the Govs and are also on a three-match winning streak after not dropping a set at the Governors Beach Challenge. With 44 career wins, Moore trails only Jenna Panning, who won 54 times in her career, on Austin Peay's all-time wins list.

Demi McInnis and Tegan Seyring have manned the No. 3 line for Austin Peay this season and have a team-leading four victories. On the No. 4 line, Caroline Waite and Erin Eisenhart have won twice this season, but Eisenhart has also been joined by Karle Graham twice in the No. 4 pairing, dropping both matches. Elizabeth Wheat and Graham have been Austin Peay's No. 5 pairing for the majority of the matches this season with the duo picking up a single win in five outings.  

After the OVC Weekend at Chattanooga, Austin Peay hosts a 1 p.m., Wednesday double-dual match against North Alabama at the Govs Beach Volleyball Complex. The Governors then travel to the GSU Diggin' Duals, April 8-9, hosted by Georgia State at the Georgia State University Sand Volleyball Complex in Atlanta.

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